cahoots

cahoots (k[schwa]-hoots).Slang. Partnership, esp. in an illegal act; collusion (the lawyer was in cahoots with her client).

CAIRNS’S ACT

Cairns’s Act (kairn-z[schwa]z). Hist. An 1858 statute that expanded the relief available in England’s chancery courts to include monetary damages in addition to injunctive relief. • Cairns’s Act was superseded by the Judicature Acts of 1873–1875. — Also spelled Cairns’ Act. Cf. JUDICATURE ACTS.

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